Please join ILS experts Dirk Lohmann, Head of ILS and Daniel Ineichen, Head of Portfolio Management ILS to discuss the all-important January 2018 renewals season. After an extremely eventful 2017, we will discuss impact on rates and portfolio yields as well as other key topics for the industry.

Join us to learn how MaxLinear relies on WANdisco to improve productivity with Subversion Multisite delivering results such as:

- A 24/7 continuous integration environment with zero Subversion downtime
- Improved administrative efficiencies with Access Control
- Elimination of the effects of network failures and the dependency on legacy backup procedures
- Overcoming the challenges with Subversion mirrors

About the Presenters:

Russ Hill, Account & Renewals Manager Americas at WANdisco. Russ Hill works with our existing SCM install base as an account manager and renewals specialist. He works closely with the WANdisco Professional Services team on all SCM service opportunities in North America and is currently responsible for all new SCM opportunities within the Americas.

Owen Ofiesh Software Configuration Manager at MaxLinear. Owen Ofiesh is the Software Configuration Manager for MaxLinear, a global chip design firm. With over 15 years experience in configuration management, he has a strong background in many of the most common SCM tools and platforms. Owen has worked with WANdisco Subversion MultiSite for over six years and has a great understanding of how it compares and contrasts with other SCM tools.

The SaaS model has turned business on its head. Revenue from existing customers, through renewals and upsells, is the key to growth. Making sure your customers are engaged and successful is now a must. Luckily a new category of technology has emerged that provides SaaS businesses a smart and scalable way to drive customer success -- all through better monitoring and understanding of customer value. Join this webinar to learn 5 strategies that companies like Optimizely, Zendesk and Autodesk use to increase retention and revenue with customer success software.

Radical changes in security have dramatic impact on load balancing. SSL/TLS is changing so rapidly that enterprises are forced to do a forklift upgrade of their hardware load balancers. However, with Avi's software load balancer, it’s as simple as a version update.

In this webinar, we will catch you up the latest SSL facts.

- SSL termination can be done with only software. And it has better security, scalability, and lower cost. That’s how Facebook and Google do it. Let’s see how.
- RSA and Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) have different implications for perfect forward secrecy (PFS), HTTP/2 and TLS 1.3 support. Let’s compare.
- SSL health score allows you to manage expiring certificates, automated certificate renewals, and notification alerts from a centralized control plane.

When you can see what your accounts spend on IT, what technologies they have installed, and when their contracts are up for renewal, you’re in a much better position to add value to your prospects and deliver more revenue for your company. Every day, successful sales teams are using the Magic Triangle of IT intelligence to target their accounts when they’re most ready to buy.

In this webcast, you’ll learn why IT Spend, Installed Technologies, and Contract IT data (the three components of the Magic Triangle) are crucial to growing your wallet share. We’ll explain how:

We're excited to announce the launch of our new program templates to help automate your way to better marketing. With over 20 pre-built templates such as; abandoned browse, anniversary, and renewal reminder, sending highly targeted and relevant emails has never been easier!

Join us as our trainer, David Pyle, takes you through all you need to know about our new program templates.

A well-managed patent portfolio will protect your most valuable assets, while delivering a strong return on investment. But actively managing your intellectual property assets is time-consuming and complex – particularly if your portfolio spans across multiple territories and INPADOC families.

IP managers often have to make difficult renewal or abandonment decisions without the benefit of detailed technical knowledge, working via spreadsheets or collaborating via emails to understand the importance of a particular patent. The risk of making a wrong choice when it comes to selling, licensing or abandoning patents can sometimes push them to the safe option of ‘do nothing’.

For businesses, doing nothing means wasting budget on unnecessary or inflated renewal fees or missed opportunities to generate new revenue. How can we resolve some of these inefficiencies?

In this webinar, Duncan Clark will be discussing how patent portfolio managers can make better decisions on whether to sell, license, or scrap patents. Attendees will learn about common approaches to portfolio management and how to reduce costs and improve portfolio ROI through the strategic use of tools and innovation data.

Chatbots can be used to dramatically improve the effectiveness of a carriers internal staff. By freeing that staff from a majority of administrative tasks and providing them timely information, staff can focus their time on servicing existing and potential clients. This will have a positive impact on policy renewals, client satisfaction, and work volume.

There are profound differences between asset-based pricing strategies and those of digital services. Good pricing models can improve B2B subscription renewals, align with your service’s business value, and balance simplicity with accuracy. They blend science with art.

Join Guest Speaker Duncan Jones, VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., for a sharp, informative taking on the fundamentals of using subscription pricing as a growth weapon.
Join the webinar to learn:

•How to identify customer business case factors that drive ROI
•How to take advantage of optional extras to boost revenue
•How simplistic pricing schemes can lead to money left on the table
•How to avoid common pricing page mistakes

As you move all your processes to the Cloud, your SSL/TLS needs grow up exponentially. As you scale up your resources, you can quickly end up managing dozens, if not hundreds of certificates.

In this webinar we would like to :
-help you catch up with the latest on SSL/TLS certificates technologies and regulations
-help you understand the best way to be efficient in your SSL/TLS portfolio management
-give you an idea of how Automation can greatly reduce your stress levels when it comes to certificate lifecycle management, including reissuance and renewals

As an agent with LeClair Group, you have access to UBenefit, which will allow you to streamline your sales and renewal process with accurate, easy and practical tools. UBenefit drives insurance agencies' efficiency by capturing, managing, and sharing all the moving pieces of the benefit supply chain in a single, streamlined platform.

Join us on October 24 to learn about recent changes and updates to the UBenefit software so you are able to compete in today’s changing world of health insurance and employee benefit administration.

In this webinar Professor Peter Hawkins, will show how in today’s world of hyper-change and hyper-connectivity, it is essential to have highly effective leadership teams, that function at more than the sum of their parts, and that take collective responsibility for both leading the business and connecting with stakeholders.

He will introduce the five disciplines model of highly effective teams, and the steps on the journey from being a team manager, to a team leader, then a team orchestrator and then a team coach. He will show how both models have been applied internationally in many successful global firms including those in the Finance Sector.

Professor Peter Hawkins

Peter Hawkins is Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School and Founder and Chairman of Renewal Associates. He is a leading consultant, writer and researcher in leadership and leadership development and an international thought leader in executive teams, and systemic team coaching. He has just led a major global research project on Tomorrow’s Leadership and the Necessary Revolution in Today’s Leadership Development.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss a common problem: eliminating the costs and complexity of business continuity that relies on secondary data centers. If your infrastructure is nearing its renewal or expiration date, you’re feeling the push toward the cloud or your legacy data costs are burdensome, tune in.

Successful organizations today recognize that customer experience is a real, necessary component to the overall strategy of thriving organizations. Despite our efforts in developing and managing customer experience programs, customer service teams, and aligning organizations around focusing on customers, there are disruptive forces inherent in the way customers work that, if not managed, can detail any customer experience program.

Learn about the disruptors that derail your customer experience and how to manage them to properly sustain customer experience development efforts.

The reality of today’s sales world is that close rates are declining. It’s become even harder to bring home a sale during the most critical and often tricky quote-to-close process. And businesses that use manual document processes heighten the risk of sales falling through. In the last stage of a sale, you need a connected workflow that helps you get from quote to close in hours or days, not weeks.

Join us to learn how Adobe Sign & Microsoft Dynamics speeds up sales cycles and reduces frustrating delays in the contract approval process, enabling sales teams to close business faster.

This past week we saw the emergence of a worm-based ransomware attack in wannacry that showed us how damaging these attacks can be to critical services society relies on.

This presentation will cover the recent wannacry attacks and what we have learned from them. In addition, we'll discuss the evolution of ransomware in recent years, focusing on attacks targeted against enterprises and so-called "high-interaction" ransomware attacks. Attendees will also be given a path forward of protecting their institution. A discussion of the renewal of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery as a result and what this means for fintech going forward.

About the Presenter:
John Bambenek is Manager of Threat Intelligence Systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity and an incident handler with the Internet Storm Center. He is also a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois where he teaches courses in cybersecurity. He has been researching security threats and criminal organizations for 17 years and coordinating with US and foreign law enforcement entities to help bring criminal actors to justice.

Bots, artificial intelligence, and messaging — cost-effective, easy-to-implement automation technology —- is gaining a major foothold in customer service organizations, and the impact is palpable. Contact centers are on track to shrink by 50 percent in the next three years as routine tasks are taken over by faster, efficiency-saving bots that can triage requests, boost customer satisfaction, and offer an 8.6 percent increase in profit margin per customer.

These technologies are also making it easy to tap into the gig economy, which is producing a growing supply of tech-savvy labor for companies that also saves costs. For workers, it means flexible arrangements with low barriers to entry, plus more satisfying employment, now that the grunt work has been eliminated by automation.

AI and automation is set to level up the workforce, the economy, and your bottom line. For a closer look at the long-term implications of automation, how to invest in the brave new world of work, and more, don’t miss this VB Live event!

Attend this webinar and learn:

* The workforce implications of customer service bots
* How bots and employees can work side-by-side
* What smart companies are doing to lay the groundwork
* Future of work - what does it look like?

They’re savvy, those consumers – they can smell “targeted advertising” from a mile away, and they’re really not interested in it. But they’ll listen to recommendations from their peers, and they trust the integrity of the influencers they follow to never steer them wrong when it comes to brand buy-in.

In a world where consumers are smarter, live streaming makes TV ads irrelevant, and ad blockers are de rigueur, influencer marketing – when you do it right – means making meaningful connections, building trust, and securing loyalty.

What does “right” mean? Don’t miss this VB Live event where you’ll learn how influencers can improve your brand reputation, how to build authentic relationships with the right influencer for your brand, and the mistakes to avoid at all costs.

Register now for free!

Attend this webinar and learn:
* How influencers and customers drive brand reputation and how they differ.
* The relationship between PR tactics and community voice
* Real-world tactics used by brands to overcome PR nightmares
* How to create an influencer marketing plan that retains authenticity and believability
* How real brands think about influencers + consumers as a strategy to strengthen their bottom line